Blue Mountains Heritage | Guest speaker Ralph Bennett, the printing trade Sat 3 May 2025

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April 24, 2025 In Past Events

Guest speaker Ralph Bennett, the printing trade Sat 3 May 2025

When: Saturday 3 May 2025 at 10.30am

Where: Blue Mountains Historical Society, 99-101 Blaxland Road, Wentworth Falls

Cost: Visitors $5, Members free

Blue Mountains Historical Society (BMHS) invites members and visitors to attend its Public Meeting and Monthly talk on Saturday, 3 May 2025, commencing at 10.30am at its Research Centre at 99 – 101 Blaxland Road, Wentworth Falls.

The speaker this month will be Ralph Bennett, who, with his father and brothers, ran Joseph Bennett & Son Printing in Katoomba. Ralph has worked a lifetime in the printing trade and still volunteers at the Penrith Museum of Printing.

Ralph will talk about the printing trade and the letterpress printing process as well as the history of his family and their business in Katoomba.

Entry fee for visitors is $5.00. Morning tea will be available from 10am for $5